About Gary
Gary Zarchy is a licensed professional counselor with 25 years of clinical experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, and depression. He practices in Arizona and offers sessions in English. He takes a straightforward, person-focused approach and aims to help people gain tools they can use outside sessions.
He draws on Client-Centered Therapy to build a collaborative, respectful relationship. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors.
How Gary works
He also uses EMDR for trauma-related symptoms and mindfulness techniques to improve moment-to-moment coping. Gary earned a master's degree from the University of Phoenix and has taught in its counseling department for eighteen years, both in person and online. That combination of classroom and clinical work informs how he explains skills and structures sessions so clients can practice between appointments.
Sessions tend to focus on practical steps - clear goals, small experiments, and skill practice. He describes his role as guide, educator, and advocate, working to empower clients so they can reach their goals and move on when ready. People come to him for a wide range of concerns, including relationship and intimacy issues, grief, trauma and abuse, career challenges, and addiction.
He also supports people facing life transitions, caregiver strain, and end-of-life counseling needs. When starting, Gary asks clients about their goals and preferences and then suggests approaches tailored to those aims. He emphasizes building skills that can be used long after formal sessions end.
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What Gary works with
The areas below are the ones Gary selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Arizona |
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Online support options
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to what matters to the individual. It creates space for people to name goals and make changes at their own pace, which helps with issues like relationship concerns, low self-esteem, and many life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It emphasizes practical exercises and short experiments to test new behaviors, which can be done with homework between sessions to address anxiety, depression, and coping skills.
EMDR is an approach used for trauma-related symptoms that involves guided processing and bilateral stimulation to help reduce distress tied to past events. It is often paired with other strategies like grounding and mindfulness to support stabilization.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they decide which methods to try and will adjust the plan as needed in a collaborative way.
Online therapy offers practical benefits such as flexible scheduling and multiple communication styles. Video calls resemble in-person sessions and allow face-to-face interaction. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to exchange brief updates, practice skills between sessions, or fit support into a busy day.
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